[Alberta's Child]

Just look around you today and compare the United States as we know it to the U.S. and Germany of the 1930s. The U.S. today has far more in common with Germany of that era (in many different ways, not just "bad" ones) than with the U.S. of that era. Our culture, science, and approach to governing is based on a nihilistic, utilitarian outlook that most Americans in the 1930s would never have thought this country is capable of.

And as far as the Soviet Union is concerned . . . Just look at our media, government, and academia these days. I have a hard time believing that Americans in the 1930s would have tolerated so many overt, unapologetic communists holding positions of authority in these institutions.

[frankiep]

Are you back? Let me know when you see the US force Jews to wear stars on their clothes, force them into ghettos, kill them by the millions in concentration camps, torture and murder political prisoners, starve entire nations to bring them under our grip, kill people trying to leave the country, perform "medical experiments" on unwilling prisoners, outlaw any form of religious worship in favor of worship of a dictator, invade our neighbors and kill innocent civilians just because we can, etc.

Until then, spare me you crap about how the US resembles the Nazis and Soviets. Save it for your Western Civ 101 class.

By the way, our Interstate system was inspired by the German Autobahn the Hitler helped to create. I guess in your twisted book that makes us similar to the Nazis also.

[rlmorel]

"...I have a hard time believing that Americans in the 1930s would have tolerated so many overt, unapologetic communists holding positions of authority in these institutions...."

Please. I really have tried to be polite and give you a pass when you have shown that you don't have a good grasp of history, but do not make statements like this.

The US Government was riddled with Soviet agents, and it was "tolerated". See my tagline, read "Witness" by Whittaker Chambers, read the transcripts of the McCarthy hearings (Don't read about them in any Piece of Crap history books they give to kids in school, because they are all wrong on this issue, amongst other things) and read up on the Venona Project, which put the cap on stupid dumbass notions like "The Goldbergs were innocent" and "Alger Hiss was not a spy for the Soviet Union".

For God's sake, our OWN Vice President, Henry Wallace was a Soviet admirer and apologist.